Fintech-based growth for Asia’s financial markets
Fintechs in Asia are riding the digital payments growth wave. With unprecedented innovation, the region has renewed its leadership in modern global banking. From...
Japan and the Monetary Policy Magical Mystery Tour
By Richard Westra
With 1970s galloping inflation threatening to bring down the US economy and with it the US dollar based global trading order, Milton...
Why Workstyle Reform Just Might Work in Japan
By Ginka Toegel
Ikigai– in Japanese it means, loosely, “what makes life worth living.” If reforms by the Shinzō Abe government succeed, it may one day...
Smartmatic’s Global Controversies: Follow the Money
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
Philippine authorities allege Smartmatic “is compromised.” In the past, the software contractor has been linked with murky controversies and mysterious fortunes....
Philippine Crossroads: US Militarization Over Chinese Development
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
Manila is facing an existential crossroads, as evidenced by new challenges of militarization and uncertainty in...
South Korea Is Needlessly Endangering Economic Relations With Japan
South Korean and Japan are yet again embroiled in a controversy, this time involving a pair of statues installed in a botanic garden in...
BRICS – Potential and Future in an Emerging New World Economy
By Peter Koenig
The article is based on an interview with Tashreeq Truebody, Radio 786, South Africa. Peter Koenig elaborates on the potential of BRICS...
Selling to the Poor
By Aneel Karnani
The poor, of course, have many unmet needs. It would be wonderful if business could satisfy all (or even most of) these...
What the West Can Learn from the ASEAN Way
By Edgardo Angara
The rise of ASEAN shows how consensus-building, more than the rule of the majority, can help nations overcome religious and racial...
Japan Inc. will defy its critics and innovate once more
By Gianfranco Casati
Japan's corporate leaders face a big challenge in fulfilling the nation's ambitious plan to create what the government calls Society 5.0, a...
